New Rules

General Guidelines

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Homework

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I think they're pretty good but not too strict and fairly obvious.

These are better than the current rules because there is a lot missing from the current ones. This way, not one can come and complain that he got banned for doing something but that wasn't in the rules.

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5 and 6 are harsh and 9 is not really a rule. 14 doesn't make sense and 15 should have a clause where you can advertise with permission.

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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Sorry, meant 4 and 5, not 5 and 6.

I don't see why anyone should not be able to offer money for a solution to a problem

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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General Guidelines and Rules

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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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It's good to have a debate about the rules but I think we should be slow to change in case we lose things of value. One of the strengths of this forum is that members get on well and obviously enjoy the relaxed nature of the forum.

When I first joined I thought there should be strict observance of this

This is a Forum, it is not instant chat. Leave your message, and come back later (hours or days) to see what responses you got.

and this:

No Spam. Spam includes messages that have no relevance to the topic, .......

But then I found myself doing it and clearly other get a lot from it so I wouldn't want to knock that out.

Something that often happens with Help threads, is the OP never comes back and the members take over the thread. Does that matter? If I had posted for help and came back two days later to find my question had been padded out with loads of chat between members I'd be a bit confused, especially if the 'answer' got lost amongst all the chat, so maybe we should be more wary about how we treat someone's query.

Because there are so many 'Do this and post another' type posts I do find it hard to keep track of all the new stuff everyday but, hey, as the chairman said “Let one thousand flowers bloom”.

Bob

Children are not defined by school ...........The FonzYou cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei

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What does “Let one thousand flowers bloom” mean?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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In the last hour I have spotted 4 major infractions of some of the rules listed above. What should be done? Bannings? Warnings? Deletions? The transgressors will complain, there will be arguments over interpretation. More rules will be quoted and eventually more force brought to bear. In the end, hard feelings. Is that what you are all clamoring for?

My own personal experience in another forum, one of the best. I made a point. One moderator replied a day later said my point bothered him, another called me an idiot. I argued with them, proving that I was an idiot. At least I was a polite idiot. The administrator PM's me, "leave my moderators alone or I will bar you." The rule he cited, "A moderators word is final," therefore I am an idiot. The rule was right there on the front page.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.If it ain't broke, fix it until it is. Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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It's a quote from Mao Tse-Tung, from his 'cultural revolution' period. It seemed to take the brakes off the clamp-down on dissent but some observers think it may just have been a ruse to flush out those who disagreed with him. Anyway, no suspicious motives from me; I genuinely meant let's share a variety of styles, attitudes and cultures.

"A garden is more beautiful when it contains more than one type of flower." quote from chairman Bundy.

Bob

Children are not defined by school ...........The FonzYou cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei

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I fully agree with post 12

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

18. Make all attempts to ensure that your post is credible and correct. Support all speculative/not obvious information in your post with valid sources (peer reviewed journals or textbooks constitute as valid sources).

I agree that these rules may be stern, but as bobbym said, it depends on how you enforce it. The point of these rules is to prevent any banned member from complaining that we banned them for something not on the rules. How you enforce them is up to the staff. Some leniency is expected.

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I agree with everything Bob and bobbym said. I the end, they are the ones who decide, by guts or otherwise, whether someone should or should not be banned.

As for the "rules" 16 and 18, they are not very good.Imagine this: a guy is wondering what the integral of something silly is, e searches Google and finds that it doesn't exist. He says: "Okay, guess I'll just move on". Now, on the other hand, if he comes to this forum, it just might happen that he will ask that and we will tell him it doesn't exist, but, say, bobbym also tells him it can be done numerically for a definite integral.Who knows, it might just interest him... Rule 18 is similar.

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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I meant only something very common, such as "what is a derivative?"

As for rule 18, I am sure you do not want anyone coming in here saying they proved Fermat's Last Theorem or proved that the theory of special relativity is nonsense, and then invent physics or mathematics to support their cause.

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ShivamS wrote:

such as "what is a derivative?"

Huh!! You did not like my calculus lectures in the other thread?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.